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I use and love git crypt, but it doesn't get enough use. I think because it's easy to screw up gpg keys. Most of my uses (for one to three devs) have become symmetric keys shared out-of-band instead of using gpg keys because we've had lots of onboarding pain even from people who are quite competent. There are just a lot of sharp edges in gpg that you don't know when you don't know.", "context": "small teams of one to three devs", "use_case": "encrypting secrets in repos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"}, {"id": 760776160, "item_id": 47548510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548510", "by": "piersj225", "date": "2026-03-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've not tried this, however", "excerpt": "I've not tried this, however https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt Apparently someone has developed something similar to this", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"}, {"id": 737554064, "item_id": 46097129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097129", "by": "sevenseacat", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use git-crypt to encrypt the inputs in my public repo", "excerpt": "I use git-crypt to encrypt the inputs in my public repo https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/ :)", "context": "", "use_case": "encrypting puzzle inputs in repo", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advent of Code 2025"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "freedomben", "context": "small teams of one to three devs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572480", "date": "2026-06-17"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["encrypting secrets in repos", "encrypting secrets in git repos", "encrypting puzzle inputs in repo"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081", "title": "Epic Games announces Lore version control system", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243", "title": "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189480", "title": "Show HN: Lockenv \u2013 Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096337", "title": "Advent of Code 2025", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 777159680, "item_id": 48572480, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572480", "by": "freedomben", "date": "2026-06-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use and love git crypt, but it doesn't get enough use.", "excerpt": "Agreed. I use and love git crypt, but it doesn't get enough use. I think because it's easy to screw up gpg keys. Most of my uses (for one to three devs) have become symmetric keys shared out-of-band instead of using gpg keys because we've had lots of onboarding pain even from people who are quite competent. There are just a lot of sharp edges in gpg that you don't know when you don't know.", "context": "small teams of one to three devs", "use_case": "encrypting secrets in repos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"}, {"id": 760776160, "item_id": 47548510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548510", "by": "piersj225", "date": "2026-03-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've not tried this, however", "excerpt": "I've not tried this, however https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt Apparently someone has developed something similar to this", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"}, {"id": 739077744, "item_id": 46192359, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192359", "by": "eddyg", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using git-crypt\u207d\u00b9\u207e which is transparent (you put the patterns you want to encrypt in .gitattributes) and lets you use GPG keys or symmetric keys. And it's been around for quite a while. \u207d\u00b9\u207ehttps://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt", "context": "", "use_case": "Encrypting secrets in git repos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Lockenv \u2013 Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git"}, {"id": 737554064, "item_id": 46097129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097129", "by": "sevenseacat", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use git-crypt to encrypt the inputs in my public repo", "excerpt": "I use git-crypt to encrypt the inputs in my public repo https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/ :)", "context": "", "use_case": "encrypting puzzle inputs in repo", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advent of Code 2025"}]}